2026 LSST:UK All Hands Meeting
The 2026 LSST:UK All Hands Meeting took place at the University of Manchester, in conjunction with the 2026 annual meeting of the Euclid-UK consortium. April 13 and 14 saw LSST-specific sessions, with a joint day on April 15, prior to two Euclid-specific days. The original meeting website is here and we present below the presentation materials from the first two days.
Monday, 13 April
Introduction to LSST - Graham Smith
Introduction to LSST:UK - Bob Mann
Workshop: working effectively in large collaborations - Matt Jarvis
Introduction to Science Collaborations
Dark Energy SC - Andrina Nicola
Stars, Milky Way and Local Volume SC - Tom Wilson
Solar System SC - Colin Snodgrass
Galaxies SC - Aaron Watkins
Strong Lensing SC - Dan Ryczanowski
AGN SC - Matthew Temple
Transients and Variable Stars SC - Sam Oates
Informatics and Statistics SC - Tom Wilson
LSST:UK communications strategy - Eleanor O’Kane
LSST:UK Junior Associates Network (Election info) - Clara Pennock and Tom Wilson
Update from Vera C. Rubin Observatory [video]- Bob Blum
Tuesday, 14 April
Beyond optical: the LSST-VISTA fusion pipeline - Elham Saremi
Enabling early Rubin science with robust cross-matches in the crowded LSST sky - Tom Wilson
Modelling host galaxies of variable AGN from LSST ComCam using GALIGHT - Julia Erceg
Identifying candidate X-ray binaries in early Rubin/LSST alerts - Yue Zhao
Pop-cosmos: scaleable SED fitting with a diffusion model prior - Stephen Thorp
Demo/discussion: the Rubin Science Platform [video]- James Mullaney, Garreth Martin, Jamie Robinson
LSST:UK Education and Public Outreach - Chris Lintott
Novel methods of mitigating galaxy clustering systematics for LSST - Tom Cornish
Clustering redshifts with Lyman-alpha forest: calibrating the high redshift tail for Euclid and LSST - Qianjun Hang
Differential Chromatic Refraction and Rubin/LSST - Matthew Temple
Introduction to Lasair and lessons learned by users [video] - Heloise Stevance, Steven Gough-Kelly, Dan Ryczanowski